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SERIAL STORY-
Summer Sweethearts
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY
KATHARINE STRYKHURST, beaurul, 20, In discontented with the useless round of metal Activities that make up her fe. Her father and aristotle panther, BERTINE, fuse to let Katherine adectake any sort of work.
Jally with MICHAEL Khibaring rides HEATHEROF, young westerner who run a riding lid. BALLY MOON, locat coqurite, who encalls at the elul for ring lessona, 206 PARKCH, Katharine's friend, retur from Europe where she was went to futur a love affair with GIBBB LARKIN, of whom Zoisit in love her pasta duapprove. with Gil
DR. JOHN KAYE,. a relative of Bertine's, park the Strykhurata a vialt.
Katharine telephones the riding club. Jearne Michael is riding with Sally and feels a bang of Jestory.
CHAPTER VII
Zoe spoke cautiously into mouthpiere: "Telegram,
the
she said.
"Straight telegram to Mr. Gibbs Larkin, Pequot House, White Bay, Maine: Come back. Must see you. Awfully important. All my Signed Zoo,"
love.
were
She sighed with relief. No ano had heard her. The malds downstairs, busy with lunchcon pre- parations. Her mother, in crisp nen and a shady hat, had driven off half an hour ago to Garden Chi miret. ing. The gardens brociled in the fog, Regularly, at intervals, a mournful
the stillness
the sound pierced foghorn, blowing durmured to
the
Paint. "It's uncanny." Zoe herself. The soft summer morning was breathlessly warm, still; haze brooded! over everything. Nastur-
tium leaves were furred with bright drops and the tall spikes of foxgloves eaught and helt bends of moisture
in their inverted uneecaps.
She downstries, ran out upon the lawn, her white shoes becoming
staired streaked
with!
the heavy It Gilber should wire back. If Mother should get the wire-oh, she would be in situation then, right
Her
ཝཱ ཝཱ ས heart enought
benting She couldn't
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"Listen, Kay," said Zoe, "I'm nearly frantic. I wired Gibhe to-day—”
"Well, take 10 winks if you feelf
Heating She had been like it. You de krok tired."
bered-had
sand this much giddy with shock last night when someone that Ilart boy, she remem
said Gibbs was going to marry some girl from Swampscott, It wasn't, it couldn't be true! Peo- pic started stories like that, braven only knew why. But she had to see him had to find out what it was all about.
She ran berass the unearthly bright green of the closely-clipped grass, her rubber sales making a faint squeak as she passed. You could scarcely see the pier. Down below, at the club, a few people were in bathing You could hear the faint ghostly sound of thin laughter.
Zoe hugged her arms nhout her. shivering in the warm stillness. Un- canny, this silence, this all envelope
tense
uncut.
Gerda intercepted her.
"There's
a call for you, miss, On the upstairs Zoe went out on the terrace, well phone,"
Her heart seemed to stop beating! within the range of the library tele. phone and the driveway, up which for an instant. She flashed a smile Gerda was clever. She any errand boy might tool his bicycle, at the girl. She fixed her eye on the printed knew there was something in the page, but her and was swhere, wit One-thirty now, and the wire must Zac ran like a have been delivered about 11. Well, but Gibbs might be out for a day's broad staircase.
Was "Hello. Hello," sailing, fishing-anything.
shaking. absurd to expect an instant reply.
But it was Katharine's familiar. answered her. Inughing, voice that Zoe felt actually sick, shaken, with disappointment,
It
The long day dragged past. Edith Williams came in for to; Zoe could hear her mother chattering about the Welfare Society and milk for the Italinu bubles in the Hollow. And still no call, nu telegram?
might be.
wild thing up the
Her hands were
"Ellen said you called before." "Oh, I did. Look, Kay, can yot run over for a minute? Have you' guests?"
"Bertine has, but I can get away. Down at the end of the garden? In five minutes
So this was what it was to have paur heart actually breaking. Zoe ing fog!
hat read about it, lind after heard of She hnd, tetters to write, a new it, but somehow she had never book with the leaves still But she couldn't settle down to any realized what an agonized process it
Zoo powdered her nose, thinking its n She
Strykhurst thing. She listened.
Telephoned the violin string, for the sound of the
house.
Ellen's greable voice, within a detached way that she looked telephone, for Gerda's voice calling its touch of brogue, informed her hastly. Katharine was the lucky That Miss Katharine had gone to the one, not to have involved herself in uny way if a love affair. "I wish I detached," Zoe thought. e Do you want her to cali?" "Yes, please!" Zoe had to tell some- Katharine's pale green orgundie Katharine might not under-gilmr are behind the trellis. You
She needed a shampoo and mani- cit'll be back for dinner, Miss could be like her. She's so cool and
to
her, eure, but she dare not leave down to the village. Her wire might come; hor
mother, urgent, might open i
it
thinking
go
it
jane.
All day she waited, strung on thin/stami; but she would be sympathetic skirted the convent garden to come
wires of waiting. Lunch was served. She toyed with food, her ears strained for the scrape of a messenger hoy's wheels on the gravel..
"You're not hungry, dear." "Not very, lind n late breakfast." "You ingy kitten. Father played 19 holes with Victor Strykhurst,"
enough.
in this way, A painted gate and a There were just three of them for rustic sent broke the line of the dinner. The fog still held ni it was hedge, and below the rough line of close and warm indoors, so they dined rocky beach showed.
on the terrace.
"Broke 10 this morning." her father said genialy. He was a spare, florid man of 56, very proud of his waistline and his red setters. One "Don't see how they could see the of these amiable do now ambled up to the table and was discouraged, not club's the
much "Oh.
higher too strongly, by his master. ball ground, you know. I always think "Get away. Laurie.
we get the worst of the dampness
Bud for my sinus,
round with Came down here.
It's
Gerda soufle.
"You must try some of this. delicious. Cook will be hurt."
Zoe helped herself to it indifferent
Maybe she was going to be really
No
Down sir.
"What's up?"
Tho
"Listen, Kay, 'n nearly frantic
wired Gibbs to-day whole story tumbled aut
J:171.
"I don't believe he's going to marry anyone," Katharine said dally.
"But if he is! What shall I do?" She was sa obviously miserable. Strain showed in her round face, pale moners
10 take him the now in the gathering dark, and in the Tell Gerda to the kitchen," said Mrs. Farker plain-hadows under her eyes.
"He's not worth it," Katharine he- tively.
ely. "He nets as though Waters
But she WAK interrupted: hadn't fod him."
loth girls drew instinctively together as a dark figure sprang at them out! of the fog, from the direction of the it. Her checks burned, as if with n "There was a good deal more of this, beach.
"Oh, he wen't eh?" demanded a and her hands were like ire. Mrs. Parker objecting stremously to i fever,
note of the dog's presence on the terrace, her masculino voice, Gibbs!
"Gibbs!" cried Zow, on "Katharine looked lovely last night, husband agreeing but keeping Laurie didin't she?"
(To Be Continued). have to scream if she were compelled "What did you say, Mother? Oh, at his side, Zoe thought she would terror and delight, yes, she was graad in that white to stay there much longer. Oller thing. Sort of goddess-like."
terrible! They filled "Noel Cotains thought. He their days with the most stupid
"Oh, he's been fed, l right, he just likes his family, don't you, Laurie, Ek, boy?"
people
Were
FOR A
anid she reminuled him of the old pic things-others' meetings and needle-ARE YOU LOOKING
ures of Lady Diana Manners." work and ordering food, raising dogs and playing golf and sitting at stuffy
offices. desks in stuffy didn't know what it was like to be really alive, or, if they did, they had
since forgotten it.
I must tell Kay that," Zoe said, trying to rouse herself to some in terest. Her mother would be sure to notice, if she didn't.
"Did you notice Gracia last night 7"
Zoo tried to smile intelligently, (Was that the library telephone You could hardly hear it in here: it's trill was so faint.)
They
to suffer, as she was now suffer- Το ing, thinking of Gibbs, with his hard. handsome face, too lined, too know. ing, staring down Intently at sonte smug, horrid lttle girl who went to the Vincent Club dances and lived an a dead set for Dr. Beacon Hill and went to Swampscott Kaye, observed Lian Parker, with in the summerilne-oh, it relish. "Captain Byrne is going bearable. back to Fort Sill next week. I sup
"Not particularly. Why 7" "She made
ture.
Twilight deepened; the
Wan un-
candle pose Gracia is planning for the flames burned straight and steady in the dimness. There was no breeze The foghorn began anywhere. ""Kitty, kilty, kilty!”
"Why, Zoc, I'm not being in the again a monotonous, eerie note.
declure, that about Gracia. Every-I
catty
on
my
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flirt. She'll marry Captain Byrne, after an interval. all right, but she must be amused in the meantime."
Words, words, words, thought Zoe woarily. As if she cared what Gracia Mellvaino thought tik. But she had to pretend "interest, smile, inauthfuls of the rich dessert.
eat
At last lunch was ever and she
*
•
Zoe pushed back bar chair. "I hate' fl," she said explosively. "I can't stand it a single other minute,
Her mother stared after her re flectively.
"She's been moping all day," sho aid. "I don't know what's wrong.
was allowed to escaper mother took She seemed so gay-so glad to bo
"No tennis?" out her
.. at first."
ingarepom. She was work-hovou pay entirely too much atten
trlento Affair
this Ume, an in-
amall of
blossoms on a black ground
bright tion to hor," Henry Parker said, de- liberately cutting the end from a long
"I don't think so. I'll swim later, cigar. Going to stretch out in a deck chalr now with my book."
Zoe ran through the hall, searcaly conscious of where she was going...
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New York Cotton
Juno 26. June 27,
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October
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11.35/36
December
11.50
11.38/98
Union Ins., $365 sa.
January (1936)
11.03
11.30/39
China Underwriters, 40 cls. n.
March
11.41/41
China Fire, $382 n.
May
11.18
11.13/43
Spot
11.95 12.00
New York Rubber
·July
12.25
12.26/20
September
12.36 12.39/89
December
12.50
12.59/40
12.67n
12.84
12.67/37 12.B0b
804
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H.K. Steamboats, $4 n. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.), $30 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $12 n. Shell (Bearer). 71/10 n. Union Waterboats, $11% 11.
Mining.
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Venz: Goldfield, $2.30 ..
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Chicago Wheat
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81
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